[Lancey Howard]

So, under this bill GHW Bush’s landslide of ‘88 would have included Massachusetts electoral votes?
I can’t figure out why Massachusetts Democrats would support this? There doesn’t seem to be any upside for them.

[Verginius Rufus]

Massachusetts almost always votes for the Democrat candidate--even McGovern won Massachusetts (although Mondale did not, and Reagan won very narrowly in 1980 thanks to John Anderson taking votes away from Carter). If they wanted to, I suppose the legislature could pass a law that the state's electors would be chosen by a majority vote of the members of the state legislature.

Right now voter fraud only helps the Democrats win individual states. If there was a national popular vote, there would be an incentive for even more widespread vote fraud in all the big cities.